The essence of the concept of «international image», the specifi formation of the international image of Ukraine from the time of independence. It notes the key role of the information component in the hybrid war. Analyzed the international image of Ukraine in the coordinates of the hybrid threats. The methods of Russian inflence on the image of Ukraine. Hybrid war is not the invention of XXI century. But what is remarkable about modern hybrid conflcts is that proportion of information and (...) media impact is much bigger. As a result, there is urgent need to form hybrid answer and hybrid defeat against hybrid threats. Information war against Ukraine aims not only destabilization and panic. It also aims to create as bad image of Ukraine in the world as possible. This process started in 2005 during fist gas war. Ukraine was accused in stealing transit gas and not paying gas debts. Therefore, this image has to be broken and positive one has to be created and supported. Russia uses and combines numerous methods of creating negative image of Ukraine. Russians try to use the person of former Ukrainian President, Victor Janukovich, in order to put offiial Kiev under pressure and make its legitimacy questionable. Speculations on painful and debating points in Ukrainian history became usual. This instrument is not new, but effectively splits Ukrainian society. The pressure on Russia’s partners in Europe in order to create coalition against sanctions and to cut Ukraine’s support is growing. Russia also claims that Ukraine is not historically legitimated, divided country. Although made some positive steps in the legislative regulation of the formation of the international image of Ukraine, however, remain a number of unresolved issues such as the lack of program coordination of information activities of state authorities in creating a positive international image of Ukraine. (shrink)

It is generally known that the influential Kyiv researcher, professor of the St. Volodymyr University and honorary member of the Kyiv Theological Academy Ivan Sikorsky made a significant contribution to the development of the psychological science of his times and gained great authority among his colleagues in the West. In recent years, many studies have been launched in Ukraine, whose authors are trying to demonstrate the relevance of his work also in terms of contemporary science. It remains unclear as to (...) when and how he was recognized in the West, which of his colleagues he influenced in his own life, how his academic achievements are now appreciated in foreign professional circles. Trying to fill this gap, the author of the paper created Sikorsky’s personal profile on the Internet platform “Google Scholar”. This Internet-based platform is regularly used to calculate citations of the contemporary scholars and publications. However, as it has turned out, Google Scholar may also be a useful tool for the historical research. This search engine collates information on almost all of the Sikorsky’s works, including those written or translated into foreign languages and published abroad. Despite the fact that Google Scholar identified and included in its own list not all of the existing references, it nevertheless helped to reconstruct a rather large and representative bibliography. Combining the quantitative and qualitative analysis of relevant information from Google Scholar as well as such tools as Google Books, Internet Archive, JSTOR, etc. helps to clarify and substantially expand the understanding of Sikorsky’s place within the history of science and the treatment of his works in the West. As it is clearly shown in the article, he became one of the brightest domestic representatives of the leading trends in the world psychology. A significant number of Western experimental psychologists of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century were actively referring to his pioneering researches on the phenomenon of mental fatigue in children. It is also shown that the contribution made by Sikorsky to the development of psychology and pedagogy has not been forgotten by the contemporary researchers. (shrink)

Purpose of this article is the historical reconstruction of the studies in philosophical anthropology in Soviet Ukraine. Theoretical basis. In the philosophical tradition of independent Ukraine, there is an opinion that at the intersection of the 1960s and 1970s, there was an anthropological turn in the national philosophical thought. The authors provide a holistic and comprehensive reconstruction of philosophical understanding of man in the works of Ukrainian thinkers of the Soviet era. Originality. It has been proved that before the emergence (...) of the Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Ukraine Academy of Sciences and the restoration of the Philosophy Department at Kyiv State University, the writings of Ukrainian philosophers in the 1920s and 1930s emphasize specifically the "ideological" factor of human existence. Based on the materials of M. Maksymovych Academic Library and the library at H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, there have been revealed and traced the specific features and peculiarities of the transformation of main accents in philosophical and anthropological studies of Soviet Ukrainian researchers in the post-war period. Conclusions. The studied problems developed in Soviet Ukraine in two vectors. The focus was on man as a social phenomenon and a "product of ideology" on the one hand, and, on existential aspects of a human being with its internal contradictions, understanding of its nature and the sense of existence, on the other hand. It has been established that the anthropological problems were the focus of not only scientists of the Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Ukraine Academy of Sciences, but also of teachers of Kyiv State University. The authors grounded the thesis that, unlike the 1940-1950s, when the focus was on philosophical problems of natural science and philosophical personology, the 1960s bring forward not only philosophical and anthropological studies but also ethical and aesthetic issues, logic and scientific atheism. (shrink)

У статті простежується історичний шлях чудотворної ікони Божої Матері «Троєручиця» упродовж кінця ХІХ – початку ХХІ століть. Автор аналізує українські традиції пошановування чудотворних ікон. Особлива увага звертається на розвиток християнства і церковного мистецтва. Зокрема, дослідник визначає значення пам’яток Богородицького циклу. Зроблено опис останніх досліджень і публікацій із названої теми. Дається змістовна історична довідка про появу ікони Божої Матері «Троєручиці». Наголошується на виключній ролі в історії ікони пр. Іоана Дамаскіна. Дослідник розкриває обставини створення ікони Божої Матері «Троєручиця». На основі аналізу історичних (...) документів, автор простежує її переміщення починаючи з кінця ХІХ століття. У статті дається детальний опис прибуття пам’ятки до Полтави у 1894 році та урочистого встановлення її у Сампсонівському храмі. У контексті історії ікони у дослідженні розкриваються окремі аспекти розвитку православ’я на Полтавщині наприкінці ХІХ – початку ХХ століття. Науковець описує долю ікони за часів радянського періоду і дає характеристику радянського законодавств про релігійні культи у контексті збереження церковних цінностей. Автор вказує на особливості політики партійних і державних органів щодо громад РПЦ на місцевому рівні. У цьому форматі з’ясовуються і переміщення ікони Божої Матері «Троєручиця». Аналізуючи документи, дослідник зміг визначити складний механізм появи пам’ятки у Спаському храмі Полтави, де вона перебуває і до тепер. (shrink)